Author:Charles Sumner

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Charles Sumner (1811–1874)

An American politician, statesman, lawyer and orator from the state of Massachusetts.

Charles Sumner

Works

• Freedom National; Slavery Sectional (26 August 1852)
• The Crime against Kansas (19-20 May 1856)
• The Barbarism of Slavery (4 June 1860)
• Congressional Globe February 23, 1865
• The duel between France and Germany (26 October 1870; reprinted 1911) archive.org (page scans), gutenberg.org (text)

Works about Sumner

• "Charles Sumner" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
• "Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1874)
• Eulogy by Carl Schurz, Boston Music Hall, April 29, 1874
• "The Public Career of Charles Sumner", by William Henry Smith, in The Dial, Vol. 15, Num. 170 (July 16, 1893)
• "To Charles Sumner" by John Greenleaf Whittier

Encyclopedia articles

• George William Curtis, “Sumner, Charles,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Sumner, Charles,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Sumner, Charles” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Sumner, Charles,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Sumner, Charles” by Marcus W. Jernegan  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Sumner, Charles,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.